Sources: BBC
MINUSMA officially departs Mali after ten years of peacekeeping in the country. The two remaining MINUSMA bases in Gao and Timbuktu are expected to end operations before MINUSMA's mandate expires on December 31. 2023-12-11
Two people are killed and five others are wounded in a mortar attack on Timbuktu, Mali, by jihadist insurgents. The city remains under siege by insurgents with reports of food, petrol and medicine shortages. 2023-09-22
Two MINUSMA police personnel are killed and four others are injured after a United Nations Police patrol is attacked in Timbuktu, Mali. 2022-12-16
Militants disguised as United Nations troops attack two military bases near Timbuktu, Mali, using rockets and two car bombs. At least one soldier at the bases, used by France and the UN, is killed and more than twelve others are wounded. 2018-04-15
Malian alleged Islamic extremist war criminal Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud makes an initial appearance before the International Criminal Court accused of demolishing shrines in Timbuktu, rape, torture, and sexual enslavement. 2018-04-4
The International Criminal Court sentences Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to nine years in jail for leading the destruction of nine of Timbuktu's mausoleums and the centuries-old door of the Malian city's Sidi Yahya Mosque. 2016-09-27
The United Nations mission in Mali confirms that the Malian armed forces had retaken a UN Police base in Timbuktu from unknown assailants that attacked it earlier in the day. 2016-02-5
Fourteen Sufi mausoleums in the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali have been rebuilt, three years after they were destroyed by Islamist militants from Ansar Dine group. 2015-07-19
An Arabian camel gifted to President of France François Hollande for liberating Mali is killed and stewed by a family in Timbuktu, in whose care Hollande had left it. 2013-04-10
Islamists in Mali are reported to have resumed a campaign to destroy mausoleums that they consider idolatrous in the historic city of Timbuktu. 2012-12-23